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Womans Christian Temperance Union
one of the largest and most influential women's groups of the 19th century by expanding its platform to campaign for labor laws, prison reform and suffrage -
Interstate Commerce Act
United States federal law that was designed to regulate the railroad industry, particularly its monopolistic practices. The Act required that railroad rates be "reasonable and just," -
Sherman Antitrust Act
Outlawed monopolistic business practice the Sherman Antitrust Act of 1890 was the first measure passed by the U.S. Congress to prohibit trusts. -
Ida B. Wells
Ida B. Wells, was an African-American journalist, abolitionist and feminist who led an anti-lynching crusade in the United States in the 1890's she went on to found and become integral in groups striving for African-American justice. -
National American Woman Suffrage Association
organization formed to advocate in favor of women's suffrage in the United States, created by the merger of two existing organizations, the National Woman Suffrage Association and the American Woman Suffrage Association -
How The Other Half Lives
Studies among the Tenements of New York as an early publication of photojournalism by Jacob Riis, documenting squalid living conditions in New York City slums in the 1880s. -
Anti-Saloon League
Anti-Saloon League was the leading organization promoting National Prohibition in the U.S. It was a non-partisan political pressure group -
Eugene V. Debs
president of the American Railway Union. His union conducted a successful strike for higher wages against the Great Northern Railway in 1894. He gained greater renown when he went to jail for his role in leading the Chicago Pullman Palace Car Company strike. -
John Dewey
Father of progressive education, was a philosopher who believed in "learning by doing" which formed the foundation of progressive education -
Robert La Follette
an American lawyer and politician. He represented Wisconsin in both chambers of Congress and served as the Governor of Wisconsin. ... He sought election as governor in 1896 and 1898 before winning the 1900 gubernatorial election -
Square Deal Policy
Square Deal was Theodore Roosevelt's domestic policy based on three basic ideas: protection of the consumer, control of large corporations, and conservation of natural resources. -
Northern Securities Antitrust
a short-lived American railroad trust formed in 1901 by E. H. ... The company was sued in 1902 under the Sherman Antitrust Act of 1890 by the Justice Department under President Theodore Roosevelt, one of the first anti-trust cases filed against corporate interests instead of labor. -
Anthracite Coal Strike
Coal strike of 1902 aka the anthracite coal strike was a strike by the United Mine Workers of America in the anthracite coalfields of eastern Pennsylvania. Miners struck for higher wages, shorter workdays and the recognition of their union. -
Lincoln Steffens
American investigative journalist and one of the leading muckrakers of the Progressive Era in the early 20th century he launched a series of articles in McClure's, called Tweed Days in St. Louis, that would later be published together in a book titled The Shame of the Cities -
Elkins Act
United States federal law that amended the Interstate Commerce Act of 1887. The Act authorized the Interstate Commerce Commission to impose heavy fines on railroads that offered rebates, and upon the shippers that accepted these rebates. -
Department of Commerce and Labor
short-lived Cabinet department of the United States government, which was concerned with controlling the excesses of big business -
Ida Tarbell
American writer, investigative journalist, biographer and lecturer. She was one of the leading muckrakers of the Progressive Era of the late 19th and early 20th centuries and pioneered investigative journalism, best known for her classic The History of the Standard Oil Company -
The Jungle
Upton Sinclair's novel that inspired pro-consumer federal laws regulating meat, food, and drugs -
Pure Food and Drug Act
Act for preventing the manufacture, sale, or transportation of adulterated or mis-branded or poisonous or deleterious foods, drugs, medicines, and liquors -
Meat Inspections Act
American law that makes it a crime to adulterate or misbrand meat and meat products being sold as food, and ensures that meat and meat products are slaughtered and processed under sanitary conditions. -
Triangle Shirtwaist Fire
deadliest industrial disaster in the history of the city, and one of the deadliest in U.S. history. -
Progressive(Bull Moose) Party
third party in the United States formed by former President Theodore Roosevelt after he lost the presidential nomination of the Republican Party to his former protege, incumbent President William Howard Taft. -
17th Amendment
established the popular election of United States Senators by the people of the states. -
Underwood Tariff
Its purpose was to reduce levies on manufactured and semi-manufactured goods and to eliminate duties on most raw materials. -
Federal Reserve Act
provide the nation with a safer, more flexible, and more stable monetary and financial system. -
Federal Trade Commission
independent agency of the United States government, established by the Federal Trade Commission Act. Its principal mission is the promotion of consumer protection and the elimination and prevention of anti competitive business practices, such as coercive monopoly -
Clayton Antitrust Act
Amendment passed by U.S. Congress in 1914 that provides further clarification and substance to the Sherman Antitrust Act of 1890 the Act focuses on topics such as price discrimination, price fixing, and unfair business practices -
Keating-Owen Child Labor Act
relied on Congress' power to regulate interstate commerce, which they decided included the manufacture of products. -
Margaret Sanger
American birth control activist, sex educator, writer, and nurse. Sanger popularized the term "birth control", opened the first birth control clinic in the United States, and established organizations that evolved into the Planned Parenthood Federation of America -
18th Amendment
banned the sale and drinking of alcohol in the United States. This amendment took effect in 1919 and was a huge failure. -
19th Amendment
Officially extended the right to vote to women
